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Friday, July 12, 2013

How Horrific Will It Be For The Non Prepper? from the SHTF plan.com folks.....7/12/2013

This article has been made available by regular SHTFplan contributor Be Informed. Editor’s Note: You have no doubt had your own set of issues
dealing with friends and family members that simply don’t see the
writing on the wall. The following article may serve to assist you in
convincing those who simply don’t know, don’t want to know, don’t care,
or have never even thought to contemplate. Some of the scenarios
outlined below may be frightening, as they should be, because when it
hits the fan millions of people will be thrown into desperation with no
hope of a solution. Be Informed provides a variety of point-by-point
details that may (and hopefully will) convince the non-prepared
individual to at least insulate themselves with the basic necessities.
The consequences for not doing so, as you’ll see, are severe and often
deadly.
I have become personally so disenchanted with the way people fail to
prep. People still don’t understand how important it is to put away. I
have gotten into arguments over this and had cretins call me a fool
because I put away food, water, and supplies. I thought about this and
the frustration that other preppers have with this laid back idiotic
attitude that there is no need for preparation. There are good people
that just can’t/won’t start preparing. They have the money to do so, but
just don’t want to. Many have only seen what happens to non-preppers
on TV, but it still doesn’t make an impact.
In this article I detail some hard core realities to show just how
awful it will be for those that don’t prep. Every one of these scenarios
is something that has occurred to the non-prepper throughout history.
While strong images come to mind, the purpose is to jar some people out
of their inaction and into action before it is too late.
Preppers are good people and care much about those around them, and
unless something does jar those around them that choose not to prep,
their own survival chances could be reduced. For every bit of food,
water, ammunition, or supplies you sacrifice to the non-prepper, the
fewer irreplaceable supplies are left for you and your family in a
crisis situation. It is hoped that the following can help certain
people put into TRUE perspective just how horrific it will be for those
that don’t prepare.Here are the awful consequences for those refusing to prep.
As the world continues to decay at multiple facets, the common person
has and continues to be lulled into a sense that everything is
improving and will continue to for the distant future. After all, to
them unemployment has peaked out and will drop until everyone that wants
to work will easily be able to find good paying work, North Korea is
no threat because all their long range “bottle rockets” fizz out,
sanctions will eventually make Iran give up their nuclear program, oil
prices will start going down after June or so, Europe will bail out
Greece and Spain and everyone else, and U.S. debt will eventually come
under control.
After 2012 everyone that has prepared themselves will go back to more
“sensible” lives. “Good times are coming”, baseball season is here,
let’s get back to watching some more crackerjack news.
It is amazing how people become good conversationalists with most
others discussing all the gossip related news, while becoming mentally
tranquilized into a totally deceptive state of denial of truly dangerous
issues of the times. It’s the blind leading the blind… right off the
cliff.
Rather than dealing with harsh reality, people surround themsleves
with easy to digest material that can be talked about without directly
influencing anyone’s lives. Meaningless chatter. Even for those
unwilling to even think to prepare for a societal catastrophic event,
there is also no desire to even face the extreme possibility of a sudden
loss of one’s employment. A personal SHTF.
Look at some of the terrible personal pain experienced in America
right now – and it hasn’t even hit the fan on a grand scale.
Those people who have lived it up on credit, who failed to put much of
anything away for a rainy day, who’ve lost their job, and who eventually
lost their unemployment benefits are experiencing the first level of
collapse. This is happening to millions of people in our own country,
all around us, as we speak.
These Americans, who once enjoyed the luxuries that modern living had
to offer, are now at their wits end, with very little hope for a return
to their previous lives. They are no longer able to pay most or any of
their bills. Many have to humiliatingly turn to others for help to pay
for food, or worse, to obtain old, unhealthy and poor tasting food from
locally funded food banks. Their credit cards are totally worthless.
Many have been evicted from their homes and have uprooted their families
to live either on the street, in tent cities, with relatives, or have
been forced to live at homeless shelters, They’ve have had their
vehicles repossessed, or simply can’t afford the gasoline anymore. Their
living conditions often make it difficult, if not impossible, to look
presentable for job interviews. For many, the life of stability they
knew just a short while ago is gone, replaced with fear and a constant
stress to the point of nervous breakdown.
A personal economic meltdown is confined to the individual or family,
or at worst a few families. The human civilization remains intact and
so do society’s safety nets.
With food assistance, rental assistance, homesless shelters, and
family to turn to, even the most destitute are almost always able to
find some sort of help – however menial.
It is no wonder with these known assistance programs, then, that
people have forgotten or never thought to consider what happens IF and
WHEN human civilization goes through a strong enough SHTF event. If
that happens on a mass scale what happens to everyone that needs help
that has not prepared ahead of time? What happens when governments are
in such total disarray or destroyed altogether that they can’t help even
if they wanted to?
The media and others have portrayed the good people that sacrifice
much if not all “luxuries” of life to prepare themselves and their
family and friends for extreme times, as chicken littles. Those who
have made the choice to store up emergency food, water, and other
necessities to avoid extreme life threatening risks, including suffering
horribly during and after a widespread SHTF event, are laughed at and
ridiculed often for “wasting” their lives on delusional paranoia.
But who is delusional? Those who see the signs around them and
understand how vulnerable the system is, or those who believe that
things never change, that politicians have their best interests at
heart, and that if the worst happens the government will be there to
provide everything they may need?
How many have considered the dire consequences of their failure to
prepare in the event that the infrastructure and everything a country’s
people depend on totally collapses?
The misery from long term unemployment and lack of money is like a
walk in the park compared to the severe anguish and dangerous conditions
that await those who have failed to prepare for the aftermath of a
large scale cataclysm. The “minor” problems of unemployment that seem
extremely major and painful to most today should serve as a wake up call
to what life will be like when something much, much worse happens –
when those proverbial safety nets are no longer there to catch us.
Many preppers have become deeply frustrated at those around them,
especially those that truly mean something to them, because they simply
refuse to put away anything at all for emergencies. The prepper is
usually a person that cares a lot and it is often difficult for them to
take a tough stance towards the people that they care about. However,
unless someone changes the habits of those people that fail to get
ready, decisions will need to be made, and they won’t be easy.
The choice of what the prepared prepper should do will boil down to
either either adding these people to their own circle or survival group
and reduce the group’s safety, supplies and self sufficiency, OR, they
will have to let the non-prepper fend for themselves. This is a very
personal choice, and each of us will need to decide based on our own
morals, ethics and personal relationships.
As a last ditch effort, discussing the following scenarios with the
non-prepper may help them understand what life will be like without what
has sustained them so comfortably for so long.
This is the hard reality the non prepper needs to understand:

Without power the water company cannot get water to their faucets.
Without water dehydration occurs within 24 hours. Dehydration causes
much suffering before death.

Toilets in homes, unless they have an incineration toilet that still
need power to work, don’t flush without water. Where will they go to
the bathroom and then where will they dispose of human waste?

There will be no clean water available anywhere, especially in
major cities, and they cannot live more than about three days without
it.

Drinking dirty and polluted water will make them incredibly sick and accelerate the dehydration process.

Polluted water must be purified and that means having a good filter,
bleach or other disinfectant, or fuel and something to boil water with.

Understand just how fragile the power and the infrastructure is that
pumps water to the public. A breakdown in our power infrastructure or a
cyber attack against utility systems will render them useless.

A single event can rapidly lead to a cascade of other events that
would certainly collapse almost, if not, everything. This is why major
snow storms, hurricanes or solar events in the past have affected
millions of people in an entire region all at once.

A single, seemingly unimportant event may become quite terrible as
its repercussions spread; this can include a far and away disaster.

Understand that the economies of the world are so interwoven that when one major economy falls it affects everyone.

Not having any food in the house means that if the stores are
emptied suddenly in a bad enough situation that there will be no food
available for a long period of time afterward. Recent history during
disasters around the world has shown that stores can literally be
emptied in minutes.

Think about how totally horrible the feeling of being very hungry is
and what circumstances would cause one to be desperate enough to eat
anything.

ALL stores can be closed instantly under martial law.

Understand that you may not be able to purchase anything after it starts, especially with any credit cards.

Understand the complexity of food and water distribution; breaks in these chains can stop anything from getting to the people.

What life will be like if no toilet paper is stored?

Understand that without light sources, the night will be pitch black, often with zero visibility.

There will be no communications, other than probably martial law
type of instructions over the radio, that is if they have batteries for
the radio.

Other than ham and shortwave radio, any information that is
available will be sent out by the government as filtered propaganda that
“they” want everyone to hear.

Without power consider what it will be like to not have any heat to
stay warm, or air conditioned air to stay cooler – with no way of
alleviating the situation.

Travelling will likely be by foot or bicycle, as their will be no fuel and roadways may be blocked.

Realize that ANY travel outside of the home or neighborhood will be extremely dangerous as ANYONE who moves becomes a target

Non preppers will be pushed way beyond their limit because of lack of supplies.

The non prepper must realize their government does not really care
about them individually, that they are a mere number and help will
likely not come from them.

They have to figure out somewhere to get food. This can mean wild
plants which they must know how to identify as safe, or risk poisoning
themselves.

They have to understand that when we refer to “having no food” it
doesn’t mean not having the food they are used to enjoying, it means no
food to eat at all.

They have to understand that if they are fortunate enough to have
any running water, they will probably have to bathe in cold water for
lack of stored fuel to heat water.

They have to realize that the very strange and totally unexpected
is going to be all around them, made that much worse because of lack of
any reliable self defense stores or skills.

They might have to remain on the run constantly because of looking for water and food.

They must understand that bad will be magnified magnitudes to living
misery because of lack of food, water, and other necessary items that
they took for granted for so long.

Okay, now comes the “truly ugly and unthinkable” life that most, if
not all, people that have failed and refused to prepare themselves will
deal with. Clear vivid visualization is key here for anyone that ho
hums the idea of prepping.
What horrors they will likely face after a cave-in
of their nation’s economy, war, geophysical upheaval, or whatever crisis
is bad enough to disturb or stop their nation from working and
functioning? There are plenty of very potential SHTF events that are
simply awaiting a catalyst to trigger them.

The Non-Prepper (NP) has to realize right off the bat that 911 and
other emergency calls in will be met with silence or some recording
telling the caller not to panic.

The (NP) that has no reliable self defense that can stop an
attacker, will not get help from public services, and will become a
victim of rape, assault, torture, or murder.

The (NP) that has no reliable self defense and will not only be at
the mercy of criminal elements, but also have to contend with many
desperate animals, some with rabies.

The (NP) that has no food will either have to find food or be ready
to beg for food or worse, like sacrificing their bodies or other
horrible acts or things to get a bite of food.

The (NP) will have to go through the worst, most rancid conditions
of garbage to just maybe find what they should have stored up.

The (NP) will go through panic and near if not total psychosis
looking for any water source right before their bodies begin shutting
down during advanced stages of dehydration.

The (NP) will go through unbearable trauma when their children and
other people around them are crying, screaming, and suffering with
intense hunger pains in their stomachs.

The (NP) will have to deal with the awful stench of rotting wastes
from many sources because they have not taken the effort to even store
up waste disposal plastic bags.

The (NP) will have disease and pathogens everywhere, not only
because they have no trash disposal means, but because they haven’t
prepared how to deal with trash and waste.

The (NP) will have to live in very primitive conditions after things
around them deteriorate rapidly, because they have neglected putting
away anything to make life more bearable.

The (NP) and those around them will likely develop all sorts of
infective skin rashes from the lack of insight of storing up toilet
paper. Imagine the smell for a moment.

The (NP) will have to handle biting insects and other vermin that
will collect amoungst the filth that will pile up. No pest control
stored up along with no other supplies.

The (NP) will have no way of treating sickness certain to follow a
SHTF event, no first aid and likely no training or knowledge about how
to treat the ill on top of this.

The (NP) will have sick and dying people around them because of not
being able to treat minor injuries. Didn’t even stock up on
disinfectives. Unsanitary conditions lead to infection.

The (NP) and others around them will experience much grief as they
watch helplessly as their family members literally die of starvation
right in front of their eyes.

The (NP) won’t believe how desperate hunger drives them and those
that mean everything to them to “trying” to eat food that taste so bad
it gags them and comes back up.

The (NP) will likely have family and friends around them that have
also not prepared committing suicide because they can’t take it any
longer.

The (NP) will witness some of those people around them lose any
sense of civilized humanity in them and behave like wild animals after
some time from lack of necessities.

The (NP) and family members, maybe friends also, will at some point
end up barbecuing or eating raw the family dog, cat, bird, any pet dear
to everyone for food.

The (NP) will likely get into physical fights with other family
members over any scrap of food available as rational thoughts are lost
to wanton hunger.

The (NP) as many other (NP’s) will eventually go out of any safety
of their home looking for food and or water, become disorientated and
lost, and die a hard death somewhere.

The (NP) that is “lucky” enough to find some government help will
likely have to almost sell their soul, probably all their freedom, to
get tiny rations – just enough to keep them alive.

The (NP) will see widespread violence and barbarism that will shock
them to the core and will wish that they had purchased some form of
firearm and stocked up on ammunition.

The (NP) better get used to attempting to explain the children and
other adults why they wasted all that money on junk, and didn’t buy any
emergency food and other supplies.

The (NP), no matter how positive they are will drop quickly into
depression and lose willpower as having nothing to hold on to does this,
along with lack of any nutrition.

The (NP) will feel the worst guilt imaginable as they hear their
family moaning in anguish from lack of anything to eat, knowing they
could have done something to prepare.

The (NP) will most likely not see the rebuilding and recovery after A
SHTF event. They will, like almost all NP’s, be statistics. Some will
die hours or a day before help arrives.

The (NP) from lack of food, drinking bad water, no light at night,
the horrid smells, no good self defense, the overall horror, will often
be paralyzed with fear and despair, blank stare.

The (NP) is totally helpless after SHTF, will have to rely totally
on charity of those prepared to live. They will take all sorts of
desperate measures likely to get them shot. They’ll attempt to eat
hazardous foods like an animal trapped in a house will do, and get sick
and suffer much before dying. The (NP) will likely die (ugly and hard)
as they lived, unprepared for anything.

If we were to use one single word to describe the torments that
someone who “chooses” not to prepare will go through after a true you
know what hits the fan it would be “PREVENTABLE”.
Almost every single person, even a very poor person, has the capacity
to put away emergency food and supplies. Even homeless people have
stashes of something just in case things become so bad that the normal
hand outs and thrown-away items dry up. Many people with good sources
of income don’t even have an extra can of food or any water put away at
all. This is stupidity beyond words.
Every day lightweight disasters happen in all parts of the world that
disturb services enough that people are confined to their homes for a
certain amount of time. While recovery is short, people are still
uncomfortable during these times. Look what happens after a power
outage at night and you will be mystified at how many homes are
completely dark for hours. People have not even bought an extra couple
of candles or any battery operated light sources. Even in well-to-do
neighborhoods you may hear only a lone generator going after a
blackout. This lack of preparedness is truly frightening and plays
itself out again, again, and again every time services are disrupted for
minor to major reasons. It’s as if there is something wrong with
storing extra food, water, and supplies.
Even after “lessons” played out to what happens to those
non-prepared, most people still feel that it just cannot happen to them,
or won’t ever happen to them again. It should be proof enough to
people what happens to those unprepared after disasters simply by
looking at those that have gone through it firsthand. The difference,
though, comes in that these disasters have had recovery periods and help
from others. Even Haiti received some help and conditions remain putrid
over there.
After a TRUE SHTF, it is presumable that government help and others
coming to the aid of those in need WON’T happen for long periods of
time. During that time those that have chosen to not put food, water,
and necessities away are going to be in life threatening positions.
Most people just don’t get that when the supermarket shelves are empty
they will stay that way for an extended period. When the utilities go
down, especially water, it may be weeks, months, or longer before they
come back, if ever. Without what someone needs to survive each day, it
is not going to magically appear, and depending on the goodwill of
others to feed them and sacrifice their own family’s survival chances is
a terrible choice.
People MUST know what life will be like after SHTF in mega fashion if
they refuse to prepare. This is NOT new. Terrible events have plunged
people into the deepest levels of desperation and hopelessness, and they
will happen again and again.
While the above consequences to the non-prepper are extremely abysmal
for anyone to read, the simple fact of the matter is they have already
happened time and time again to those that have nothing put away.
People have resorted to cannibalism and gone to levels of primitive
savage behavior out of shear desperation and out of literally losing
their minds to the physical depletion of food and water that keeps the
physical body operating. Sometimes showing the extreme severity and
results of a person’s lack of action, such as failure of the simple act
of putting away extra food, water, and supplies, can be the kick in the
complacency that they need.
It’s really easy to put away food and supplies. All one has to do is
add a little bit of extra food to the grocery cart for long-term
storage. Over time this adds up to a well stocked pantry of supplies.
There is something that is in a can of food that everyone can eat and
enjoy the taste of, so talk to family members about their nutritional
preferences and start stocking up. Toilet paper and other supplies that
really don’t have any expiration date can be put away and forgotten
about ’til needed.
There MUST be common sense and intelligence to see what happens IF
they don’t stock up for the future. There has to be the DESIRE to get
started, and this is the real problem with so many.
Once started, however, prepping becomes a type of life saving routine
or positive lifestyle habit. It is easy and can and will save one
from misery. It may save their life and the lives of their family from
ruin when SHTF, which is almost inevitably going to happen someday.
Every month and year that goes by without a true SHTF event, makes it
more likely that it will happen. Basic statistical chance shows this to
be the case, but people continue the same pattern of behavior that has
led them to the same devastation countless time before.
For those preppers that have people around them that refuse to
prepare, you can at least have some degree of solace knowing that you
tried to show the non-prepping person(s) what not having anything will
mean to them and their families.
All we can do is try. Once we’ve given it our best shot, all we can
do is let those who have been warned about the direness of the
possibilities live their lives the way that want to. They will,
unfortunately, live in a world of regret and suffering if the nation and
the world falls apart around them.
To every action there is an opposite equal reaction. Preppers will
see their efforts have been more than worth it. Objects that are
motionless tend to remain motionless and non-preppers will find there
are horrific consequences for their lack of effort and motion to put
away “life insurance” preps for themselves and their families.

About Me

I am a Disabled/Retired Veteran who sees where this country and this economy is going very quickly. My objective is to help others become more aware and self-sufficient. After all, do you really believe that your government will take care of you?. Stand your ground, stand firm in your convictions and always take the high road in life.
The Creator has it all in control - ALWAYS!